History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged Podcast Episodes

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  A Modern-Day Knight Discusses What Knightly Service Means in 2023 (Essentially, Less Crusading and More Volunteering) January 5, 2023 - 30 min
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  J. Edgar Hoover’s 50-Year Career of Blackmail, Entrapment, and Taking Down Communist Spies January 3, 2023 - 52 min
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  The Irish Conquered the World With Plentiful Cheap Labor and Pints of Guinness December 29, 2022 - 43 min
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  Two British Sisters – A Typist and a Romance Novelist – Save Jewish Artists from the Holocaust With a Clever Con Involving Opera December 27, 2022 - 31 min
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  The Double Victory Campaign: Over 1 Million Black Americans Enlisted in WW2 To Fight Fascism Abroad and Win Equality at Home December 22, 2022 - 41 min
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  Everyone Loves Free Markets. But This Meant One Thing To Romans And Something Completely Different to Milton Friedman December 20, 2022 - 45 min
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  Failed Futures: Russia's Plans to Defeat the U.S. in the Cold War December 15, 2022 - 45 min
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  Failed Futures: The Confederacy Had Colossal Plans After the Civil War to Spread Slavery Across the Globe And Become Fabulously Wealthy December 13, 2022 - 58 min
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  Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road December 8, 2022 - 35 min
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  Failed Futures: The Post-War Plans of Alexander the Great, the Confederacy, and the Soviet Union that Never Happened December 7, 2022 - 1 min

About History Unplugged Podcast

For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features long-form interviews with best-selling authors who have written about everything. Topics include gruff World War II generals who flew with airmen on bombing raids, a war horse who gained the rank of sergeant, and presidents who gave their best speeches while drunk.

Meet your Host

Scott Rank is the host of the History Unplugged Podcast and a PhD in history who specialized in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Before going down the academic route he worked as a journalist in Istanbul. He has written 12 history books on topics ranging from lost Bronze Age civilizations to the Age of Discovery. Some of his books include The Age of Illumination: Science, Technology, and Reason in the Middle Ages and History’s 9 Most Insane Rulers.. Learn more about him by going to scottrankphd.com.